While he was still in Boston Roberts had been conducting a sort of training school, and during the years 1885-1887 25 or 30 men went out from his gymnasium to become instructors. At Springfield the summer session of 1887 (six weeks) was attended by 24 men, or 48 per cent of the whole number then engaged in Association work; that of 1888 (July 17 to August 21) by 50 men; and the third, in 1889 (June 30 to July 31), by 57 men. At the regular sessions of the Training School there were 5 juniors and 1 senior in the Gymnasium Department in the year 1887-1888, and 6 juniors and 2 seniors in 1888-1889. After two years in Springfield Roberts resigned to take charge of a new Association gymnasium in Utica, New York, but the next year (1890) accepted an invitation to return to his old position in Boston, where he continued his activities as teacher almost to the day of his death, December 22, 1920. Together with several assistants he conducted four-weeks summer courses there in July of 1893 and 1894, himself giving instruction in the system of floor work which he had made so widely popular.[277] [Illustration: FIG. 88.—Luther Halsey Gulick (1865-1918).] Luther Halsey Gulick, associated with Roberts at the Springfield Training School in 1887-1889, was superintendent of its physical department for twelve years (1889-1900), and for sixteen years special secretary charged with supervision of the physical work in the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America, under the International Committee—the first man to be appointed to such a position. He was the third son and fifth child of Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, a missionary located for a time in the Hawaiian Islands, and was born in Honolulu December 4, 1865.[278] The first fifteen years of the boy’s life were far from monotonous. In 1870 the father was called to New England, to act as a temporary district secretary of the American Board, and here his family soon joined him. Late in 1871, upon the Board’s decision to undertake missionary work in Roman Catholic countries, they sailed for Spain, to make their home in Barcelona for two years and a half. August of 1873 found them settled in Florence, but the closing of the mission in Italy the next year was followed by Dr. Gulick’s return to the United States, and in 1875 he accepted a call to become the agent of the American Bible Society in China and Japan, with headquarters in Yokohama. Meanwhile the family had remained in Europe for six months after his own departure for America, and now Mrs. Gulick and four of the children were left behind in California, and did not follow him to Japan until 1877. Three years later Luther Halsey, Jr., again crossed the Pacific, to make his home for a time with an older sister whose husband had just been appointed to a professorship in Oberlin College.